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The philosophy of thermal and statistical physics is concerned with the foundational issues and conceptual implications of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. These branches of physics deal with the macroscopic behavior of systems comprising a large number of microscopic entities, such as particles, and the nature of laws that emerge from ...
John Earman (born 1942) is an American philosopher of physics. He is an emeritus professor in the History and Philosophy of Science department at the University of Pittsburgh . He has also taught at the University of California, Los Angeles , Rockefeller University , and the University of Minnesota , and was president of the Philosophy of ...
Albert has published four books—Quantum Mechanics and Experience (1992), [2] Time and Chance (2000), [3] After Physics (2015), [4] and A Guess at the Riddle (2023) [5] —as well as numerous articles on quantum mechanics. His books have been both praised and criticized for their informal, conversational style.
Philosophy of physics is the study of the fundamental, philosophical questions underlying modern physics, the study of matter and energy and how they interact.Perhaps the main questions concern the nature of space and time, atoms and atomism, cosmogony, the interpretation of the results of quantum mechanics, the foundations of statistical mechanics, causality, determinism, and the nature of ...
Dean Rickles was born in Hull, Yorkshire. He briefly trained as a concert pianist at the London College of Music, before switching to philosophy.He received an MA from the University of Sheffield (1999) and PhD from the University of Leeds (2004).
Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel Mach (/ m ɑː x / MAHKH; German: [ɛʁnst ˈmax]; 18 February 1838 – 19 February 1916) was an Austrian [2] physicist and philosopher, who contributed to the physics of shock waves.
He specializes in the philosophy of physics, approaching a wide range of issues from a position best described as highly skeptical of many of the metaphysical conclusions commonly drawn in the physical sciences. He advocates the 'MIMO' (metaphysics in, metaphysics out) principle, claiming that much of the metaphysical content of interpreted ...
Later he studied physics and philosophy at Yale University, and history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh, where he received his Ph.D. in 1986. He taught for more than two decades at Rutgers University before joining the Department of Philosophy at New York University in 2010.